UK Gamer has a shootout between top of the line processors... They check out
the XP 2700+, XP 3000+ and the P4 3.06.

2002 was a year in which Intel managed to turn the Pentium 4 around. In
2001 they lost a significant amount of market share, and whilst still remained
the undisputed market leader, Intel couldn't let AMD eat away at their market
for another year. Intel introduced Northwood and then HyperThreading, a technology
that was previously reserved for Prescott CPUs and now we saw it, ahead of schedule.
Many say this was a direct result of AMD and their impressive showing in the
past few years. Whatever it was, Intel certainly moved up a gear and as 2002
drew to a close Intel had the fastest x86 processor available. AMD in 2003 are
starting the fight back.